Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Final Deadline Monday 18th November 2013 - update

Due to unfortunate server issues today I have decided to extend the unit 8 deadline to the end of Monday.

Your final folder needs to be handed in before 4pm on Friday 15th Monday 18th November.

The last lesson you have with me is on Thursday, you can hand the folder in then if it is finished.

I will then mark these and give you an estimated score (this has to be an estimate because I still have to mark two more classes of work before scores can be finalised). I will also give you some corrections, if I feel there is more you can do to improve your work.

You will need to resubmit any sections that you correct. e.g. if you need to make a change to the subroutine part of the your report for program two, you will need to give me the complete report for program two so I can swap out the old one for the new one. I cannot allow you to have your folders back at this stage.

Once you have re-submitted I will see how this affects the mark I gave you and update the estimated score appropriately.

All these details will be placed on your Nilpit for Unit 8, which can be found at the top of your dashboard when you are viewing the IT Intranet site.

Python Evaluation (tips)

For the evaluation after your Python report, you only really need to cover the following things


  • identify things that ought to be changed to make the program more readable and maintainable (names of variables/functions). Maybe some re-structuring. You will need to give specific examples of changes.
  • Think of improvements and features you could add to the program to make it more usable and work better (what issues does it have and how what might improve them). You don't have to say how you'd do it but just what you would do.
  • Finally improvements to the way you went about commenting and understanding the Python code. What would you do if faced with a Python program that used features of python that you had never seen before.